Cocktails & CEUs:

September 18th, 2015 Friday 6:30pm

Welcome to the Miami Association for Behavior Analysis

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Our Mission

The purpose of the Miami Association for Behavior Analysis (MiABA) is to promote the practice of behavior analysis, support local behavior analysts and the field of behavior analysis as a whole. MiABA is also dedicated to promoting the dissemination of evidence-based practices in the field, and provide continuing education opportunities to various behavior analytic professionals throughout the city of Miami.

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Our Vision

Behavior analysts who play together stay together! At the forefront of the MiABA vision is to promote unity within the professional community of behavior analysts in South Florida by sponsoring a multitude of fun-filled events throughout our sunny and beautiful city. We plan on taking full advantage of our beaches, nightlife and Hispanic cultural events all as reasonable excuses to relax, unwind and enjoy…Miami style!

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What we do

MiABA is also fully committed to promoting legislation in support of behavior analytic practice. As professionals, we are forever bound by our ethical guidelines to provide evidence-based treatment interventions to those in need, and are always in defense of our clients who oftentimes cannot speak for themselves, Individually we have a voice, but united we are stronger and louder. Join MiABA and be loud…Miami loud!

Behavior analytic science, combined with Miami chic.

Founders Circle

Anibal Gutierrez

Charter Member

Dr. Gutierrez is an Assistant Professor in the Psychology department at Florida International University and a Board Certified Behavior Analyst with experience in the assessment and treatment of severe problem behavior and in the development of adaptive skills for individuals with autism. Dr. Gutierrez’s current research interests focus on variables related to treatment effectiveness for individuals with autism well as the relationship between joint attention and preference for social reinforcers. Dr. Gutierrez is currently the site Co-PI for a federally-funded, multi-site study evaluating a school-based joint attention intervention for children with autism and previously served as the Co-PI for a federally funded, multi-site study evaluating the comparative efficacy of public preschool intervention models for students with autism spectrum disorders.

Karelix Alicea

Charter Member

Karelix Alicea is proud to be one of the founding members of the Miami Association for Behavior Analysis (MiABA) and hopes to foster a sense of community, cohesion and camaraderie among the professional community of behavior analysts in Miami. She is a BCBA who has been working with individuals with autism and other pervasive developmental delays since 2001. Miss Alicea received her Master’s degree in Psychology under the direction of Dr. Jacob L. Gewirtz at Florida International University, where she also taught undergraduate-level courses in Behavior Analysis. She has presented her research on the benefits of sign language for children with autism at various professional conferences, including FABA and ABAI. Miss Alicea now dedicates most of her time to Lotus Behavioral Interventions, a natural environment based ABA company she founded in 2009.

Adam Ventura

Charter Member

Adam Ventura is the Founder and CEO of World Evolve, Inc and is one of the original three founding members of MiABA. Adam’s organization employs over 130 certified and non-certified therapists with wide ranging experience. Adam Ventura has over 10 years experience working in the field of behavior analysis and has worked with children and adults with various different developmental disabilities. Moreover, he has worked with behaviorally challenging clients, as well as children with verbal behavior deficits and has provided instruction in crisis management. Adam’s experience is not limited to the applied field; he also serves as an adjunct professor in the Behavior Analysis department at Florida International University. Adam hopes to contribute to MiABA by utilizing his years of ABA therapy and administrative experience to grow the field of applied behavior analysis beyond therapy.

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Possibilities

Beneficios

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Social Events

Get-together with local providers. Meet educators and researchers in behavior analysis. And Just to make things interesting, have a drink on us!

Cocktails ONLY, hold the CEUs

Cocktails & CEUs:

BCBAs

BCaBAs

ABA Business Owners

Hire new staff, work with other providers on admin related issues!

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University Faculty

Find funding for research, recruit new students for lab programs!

Eventos

MiABA Cocktail & CEUs

Every year, MiABA will be regularly hosting events where certified behavior analysts can earn CEUs at a swank and trendy Miami hot spot… These events will feature presentations by some of the most influential and renowned experts in the areas of supervision, ethics, technology, and much more. Now, what makes these events different from all of the other CEU events you have been to in the past? At our events, we will be having drinks…